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Show AS TO NICKNAMES. ' ' "Wonderful how names stick to a person. There are two nice little wo men in our village who came on us one evening, and we offered them popcorn which the children had just brought in from the kitchen. They refused, but not so emphatically as to keep us from giving them two heaping plates of the corn. We kept refilling the plates and they kept crunching all the evening. There was something so funny fun-ny about it that I called them "The Popcorn Ladles," and the name has stuck to them so that the whole village vil-lage knows them by it. 1 once knew a man who talked incessantly in a high pitched voice, and a bright girl dubbed him- "The Chirper." The" name was quickly passed around among the ,young people, and now the greater part of his friends know him by that name. A dignified young woman of my acquaintance ac-quaintance goes by the name of ''Whont" to this day because when she .was a little girl she used to call herself her-self "Mrs. Whom" when she played grownup ladies, and the family picked it up. She simply can't shake the absurd ab-surd name. More than one red-haired man is known by the name of "Pink," and philisophically accepts the title. I have an acquaintance who holds a responsible re-sponsible position who 1s known by the name of "Dotty." It seems that one day a mischievous girl discovered that he had three prominent dimples. She promptly dubbed him "Dotty Dimple." Dim-ple." and now he is known to all his associates as "Dotty." Another man or my acquaintance is always called "Bluebeard" because he has such a white and thin skin that if he does not shave daily his beard shows blue throught it. That name, too, came through a woman's quick wit. In a certain household a very fern inine little woman is called "The Boy" because when she was a young girl she went through a serious illness which made it necessary to cut her hair short. Her younger sister said she was "the boy" of the family, and the dainty lady is still called by that absurd ab-surd name. An effinimate man was once called "Viola" by one of the boys in the office, and now he know him by nothing else. Another one of the boys in the office is always called "Chesty," and, though he got angry at first, he has cheerfully accepted the new name now. Our bookkeeper is al ways putting in his oar when it is not at all necessary, and I think now he will be known until the end of time as "General Butts." A friend of mine who is always called "CheerfulT does not know whether he is called that because his friends believe he has a cheerful disposition or because they consider him a cheerful idiot. But, at any rate, he can't shake the name-Catholic. name-Catholic. Citizen. , |
